Hi folks, I had an eye exam with contact lens fitting on Friday at Kaiser Permanente and was issued two prescriptions -- one for the contacts and another for eyeglasses. The eyeglasses prescription only lists two items:
OD: -5.50-sph OS: -5.50-sph It includes "wear type" of Full-Time, "lens design" of Single Vision, and "material/coating" of Plastic and Anti-Reflective. But absolutely no information about cylinder, axis, PD or other measurements (of course, the PD not being present was unsurprising). Understandably, this is a major problem when trying to shop for glasses online. I have to go back to get my eyes dilated for a visual field test, at which time I will most definitely firmly request my full detailed prescription, but it's troublesome to me that they would issue this half-a**ed excuse for a prescription. Since my (new) doctor had me speak with both the contact lens specialist and the optician about buying goods there, I am suspicious that they are stonewalling and trying to force me into buying glasses from their stock rather than other vendors by withholding information. Brick-and-mortar vendors have pocketed thousands and thousands of dollars from my family over the past decades, so I have no compunction about refusing to line their pockets any further, especially when the eyeglasses would be for intermittent/nighttime use anyway. If they want to get pissy about online eyeglass shops stealing all their business, perhaps they'd also better take a look at the contact lens industry as I imagine they've delivered a bit of a wallop as well. Anyway, I searched the discussions and posts but did not see any other entries about this issue, so I thought I'd toss it out there as a potential abuse. Rest assured I will be returning to them with FCC paperwork in hand if they give me any problems! -- Check us out at the oft-updated http://glassyeyes.blogspot.com! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "GlassyEyes" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/glassyeyes?hl=en
